Re: [9fans] cpu/auth/file servers

2014-11-21 Thread Peter Hull
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Peter Hull peterhul...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:30 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: I've been using this document : http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/expanding_your_grid/index.html Not had the AHA! moment promised in this

Re: [9fans] cpu/auth/file servers

2014-11-21 Thread erik quanstrom
Do I need to run the terminal as user None (and specify that as the default in plan9.ini) so that the 'real' user can log on to the cpu server with their credentials after rio has started? log into a terminal as yourself. this way you are yourself on the file server, and have expanded

Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?

2014-11-21 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Nov 20 13:44:04 EST 2014, a...@9srv.net wrote: Both. I agree with what you're saying about the computers, but I was thinking of the fact that the wire speed is fast enough in most cases that the tcp/ip overhead doesn't impact things noticeably for most uses. There are outliers in

Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?

2014-11-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:34 , erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: this is not correct. tcp doesn't help at all when the wire is fast (short, fat). it's the classic tradeoff of cpu for (networking) performance. the wire being fast enough is an argument against using tcp, not for

Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?

2014-11-21 Thread Bakul Shah
This paper is well worth reading: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/Publications/PubPDFs/1988Analysis%20TCP%20Processing%20Overhead.pdf While the traditional BSD implementation uses mbufs that complicate things, actual tcp processing can be done quite cheaply. On Nov 21, 2014, at 6:34 AM, erik